Mesh Textures Look Washed Out

Questions
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Hi all,

Fairly simple question (I think) here: why does the material in this playground look so washed out? Confused because when I upload the same file to sandbox I see the materials as expected.

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Upon adding a DefaultLight it appears to make the textures look as expected. Can someone fill me in on what I’m missing here?

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Light intensity was too high, especially considering the fact that you use 2 lights.
Here with intensity 0.5 the model looks better - https://playground.babylonjs.com/#RTEBJ1#1
By the way, you may not use lights at all for PBR materials and use only environment texture.

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Thanks for the response.

I considered the light may be too high and tried playing with it as you did, but the texture still appears “washed out”/flat. Here is the same scene with defaultlight, you can see the model renders much more vividly.

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Do you have the same results in Sandbox - https://sandbox.babylonjs.com/ ?

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When I add files to the sandbox they render normally, exactly like the DefaultLight example.

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If you will use env texture and no lights the result is quite the same - https://playground.babylonjs.com/#RTEBJ1#4

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Thank you so much, this works perfectly. I don’t quite understand the solution but I am going to look into it now. Thanks again.

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Here is Doc section - Introduction to Physically Based Rendering | Babylon.js Documentation

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Hello @bflock just checking in has your question been answered?